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<h2><span class="refentrytitle"><a name="libxfce4util-Unicode-Support-Functions.top_of_page"></a>Unicode Manipulation</span></h2>
<p>Unicode Manipulation — functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings.</p>
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<a name="libxfce4util-Unicode-Support-Functions.functions"></a><h2>Functions</h2>
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<span class="returnvalue">gchar</span> *
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<a class="link" href="libxfce4util-Unicode-Support-Functions.html#xfce-utf8-remove-controls" title="xfce_utf8_remove_controls ()">xfce_utf8_remove_controls</a> <span class="c_punctuation">()</span>
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<span class="returnvalue">gchar</span> *
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<a class="link" href="libxfce4util-Unicode-Support-Functions.html#xfce-utf8-strndup" title="xfce_utf8_strndup ()">xfce_utf8_strndup</a> <span class="c_punctuation">()</span>
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<pre class="synopsis">#include &lt;libxfce4util/libxfce4util.h&gt;
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<a name="libxfce4util-Unicode-Support-Functions.description"></a><h2>Description</h2>
<p>Functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings.</p>
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<a name="xfce-utf8-remove-controls"></a><h3>xfce_utf8_remove_controls ()</h3>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="returnvalue">gchar</span> *
xfce_utf8_remove_controls (<em class="parameter"><code><span class="type">gchar</span> *str</code></em>,
                           <em class="parameter"><code><span class="type">gssize</span> max_len</code></em>,
                           <em class="parameter"><code>const <span class="type">gchar</span> *end</code></em>);</pre>
<p>Removes all control characters from <em class="parameter"><code>str</code></em>
 up to <em class="parameter"><code>end</code></em>
 or up to
<em class="parameter"><code>max_len</code></em>
 characters (note that characters does not mean bytes with
UTF-8), where both <em class="parameter"><code>str</code></em>
 and <em class="parameter"><code>max_len</code></em>
 may not be given.</p>
<p>Control characters are replaced in <em class="parameter"><code>str</code></em>
 by whitespaces, no new string
will be allocated. The operation is done in-place.</p>
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<td class="parameter_description"><p>target string.</p></td>
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<td class="parameter_name"><p>max_len</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>max characters to check or -1 for no character limit.</p></td>
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<td class="parameter_name"><p>end</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>pointer to the endpoint in <em class="parameter"><code>str</code></em>
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<p> pointer to <em class="parameter"><code>str</code></em>
or <code class="literal">NULL</code> on error.</p>
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<p class="since">Since: <a class="link" href="api-index-4-2.html#api-index-4.2">4.2</a></p>
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<a name="xfce-utf8-strndup"></a><h3>xfce_utf8_strndup ()</h3>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="returnvalue">gchar</span> *
xfce_utf8_strndup (<em class="parameter"><code>const <span class="type">gchar</span> *src</code></em>,
                   <em class="parameter"><code><span class="type">gssize</span> max_len</code></em>);</pre>
<p>Duplicates the <em class="parameter"><code>src</code></em>
 string up to <em class="parameter"><code>max_len</code></em>
 characters
(note that characters does not mean bytes with UTF-8).</p>
<p>The caller is responsible to free the returned string
using <code class="function">g_free()</code> when no longer needed.</p>
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<td class="parameter_description"><p>target string.</p></td>
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<td class="parameter_name"><p>max_len</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>max characters to duplicate or -1 for no character limit.</p></td>
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<a name="xfce-utf8-strndup.returns"></a><h4>Returns</h4>
<p> pointer to the newly allocated string.</p>
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<p class="since">Since: <a class="link" href="api-index-4-4.html#api-index-4.3">4.3</a></p>
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<a name="libxfce4util-Unicode-Support-Functions.see-also"></a><h2>See Also</h2>
<p>https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Unicode-Manipulation.html</p>
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